It seems a bit strange that a referee can give a booking for a challenge that should be red, but nothing can be done after the game.

Recently Ashley Young has been banned for the incident not being seen by the ref, it wasn't brought up in the match report. The only reason this has been made an "incident" is because of BT Sport.

They decided to show multiple replays, and consult their "expert" referee. Without them doing this nothing would have been said. It suprises me that TV companies can use their power to effectively change the outcome in sport. We now miss a player for 3 matches.

Do you think TV should be allowed to do this? I can understand if a video referee involved with the match spots it and sends them off, but afterwards seems ridiculous considering many of the other football rules.

Meh it's a good thing to highlight stuff I just hate how much power the media has over refs and is able to influence them in to following certain patterns. I mean Clattenburgs revelations the other week pretty much confirmed what most fans thought.

Sooner we get VAR in the better. Remove as much doubt as possible and an even playing field for all sides.

Meh it's a good thing to highlight stuff I just hate how much power the media has over refs and is able to influence them in to following certain patterns. I mean Clattenburgs revelations the other week pretty much confirmed what most fans thought.

Sooner we get VAR in the better. Remove as much doubt as possible and an even playing field for all sides.

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VAR wouldn’t do anything in this case though. Unless Tadic complains to the ref.

It seems a bit strange that a referee can give a booking for a challenge that should be red, but nothing can be done after the game.

Recently Ashley Young has been banned for the incident not being seen by the ref, it wasn't brought up in the match report. The only reason this has been made an "incident" is because of BT Sport.

They decided to show multiple replays, and consult their "expert" referee. Without them doing this nothing would have been said. It suprises me that TV companies can use their power to effectively change the outcome in sport. We now miss a player for 3 matches.

Do you think TV should be allowed to do this? I can understand if a video referee involved with the match spots it and sends them off, but afterwards seems ridiculous considering many of the other football rules.

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Nope, we lose him because he glanced at the ref before elbowing an opponent .... cowardly, stupid, naive. Hope club fine him.

Yes. Are the media not allowed to analyse or go over games anymore? Utter nonsense opinion.

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Yes they're allowed to review games, as I believe against Huddersfield De Gea was booted in the ribs by one of their defenders, it was given very little coverage. I'm all good with equal coverage for all incidents, but targeting certain players or clubs is just wrong.

I believe he would have been banned whether BT showed it or not. The FA disciplinary panels aren't listening to non-televised games on the radio. They have access to everything.

The Premier League film and broadcast the game, BT Sport simply buy the rights to show it on their channel. The Premier League showed the replay during the game. This replay will have been shown at the same time on BT, NBC, Bein and whoever else showed the game all over the world. BT opted to show it some more after the game. Do you think the FA would know nothing about it if not for those post-game replays? He was getting a ban regardless of BT's aftershow.

What needs to be eradicated is the whole "referee saw it, so nothing more can be done" even when referees get it horribly wrong, because it leads to massive inconsistency. If a referee sees a coming together, but doesn't see an elbow connecting, he gives them a telling off and the game goes on, no further punishment because the referee saw something. Which is unfair when a player is banned for elbowing just because a referee didn't see it. All or nothing. Same with this retrospective diving panel, it's totally half arsed.

Kyle Naughton has also been punished. Didn't see any clamour by the TV companies to get him suspended. Wasn't even aware he'd been accused of anything. The FA will review any incident they deem worthy, although I do believe certain press campaigns can influence the outcome.

It seems a bit strange that a referee can give a booking for a challenge that should be red, but nothing can be done after the game.

Recently Ashley Young has been banned for the incident not being seen by the ref, it wasn't brought up in the match report. The only reason this has been made an "incident" is because of BT Sport.

They decided to show multiple replays, and consult their "expert" referee. Without them doing this nothing would have been said. It suprises me that TV companies can use their power to effectively change the outcome in sport. We now miss a player for 3 matches.

Do you think TV should be allowed to do this? I can understand if a video referee involved with the match spots it and sends them off, but afterwards seems ridiculous considering many of the other football rules.

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I assume you are just repeating the same comment you made after Aguero missed the derby last season?

Yes they're allowed to review games, as I believe against Huddersfield De Gea was booted in the ribs by one of their defenders, it was given very little coverage. I'm all good with equal coverage for all incidents, but targeting certain players or clubs is just wrong.

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That doesn't happen, and it's RAWK level to think it does.

If the media is against Utd, why does every other teams fanbase think the media is out to get their team too?

I agree with the OP, they definitely do it selectively. There's plenty of shocking challenges that don't get half the attention of others. Whether it's an agenda, a narrative or the profile of the player, I don't know. Probably all three depending on the player.

I'm more pissed off they show immediate replays with no regard for the actual match taking place thereby missing large chunks of the game.

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That does my head in.. they can show multiple replays of a chance that wasn't even dangerous or a 20sec shot of some player doing nothing at all on the bench when the ball is back in play. You can still hear the crowd though so sometimes they scream their heads off so you know something has happened but the producer always decides to show that "chance" from a 4th angle just to make sure that us viewers could see that the shot really went 8m wide of the goal.

The FA are inconsistent, that much is clear, but this sort of whinging should have waited till one of those moments. Young goofed up badly, and got what he deserved. Now of course it would be nice if all examples of behaviour like his were treated the same, but lets not ask for miracles.